How does the multiplayer work is it server based or p2p
Reason for asking is that I from South Africa and our gaming community is not that big, while I was was playing during the beta I encountered a lot of the same people and by the looks of the names it seems it was local(SA) players.
I am afraid that if it's p2p then I will only be able play with local people and there may not always be enough players to constantly get a match, if it is server based and there is local server(s) then allow us to change the region like rocket league.
While I prefer playing locally due to better latency if there population online is low I want to be able to switch regions so find a match.
Also the Latency/ping info did not make sense to me as it hardly went over 5? is on a scale from 1-10 good to bad as there is no way it would be that low unless I am the host.
P.S this game is a winner hope it blows up like rocket league.
Posted Apr 7, 2021, 9:46 AM UTC
Knockout City is played on dedicated servers, (and it needs to be, due to some unprecedented problems we had to solve in developing this game).
You can't manually change your server, but you're also not limited to only playing on your closest server. Our matchmaking server will try to find the best server for you to play on, and could put you in a nearby region if it can't find a match for you locally (meaning you can play with other regions like Rocket League, but you don't need to manually swap). That said, this game is more latency sensitive than a lot of games might be, so the experience may not be the same if you're not using your local data center.
If you had low pings, that probably just means you're pretty close to the data center! Good news for you. :)
Wow a answer from a dev thanks so much Josh, makes sense how you handling the servers but thanks for catering for South Africa, I am from Cape town all so basically a 160ms minimum away from EU which is where I play most of my multiplayer matches in most games other than COD/Battlefield and Rocket league.
Me and all my friend are matched up against people from the other side of the globe. Don't know why. :/
Makes some matches unplayable.
We are from Norway, and we are matched up against people from USA. And there are no settings for this in the settings menu. Other than that it's a really fun game, but sad when every other match is 150-300 ping games.